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Rh philosophy, Christian Science declares that whatever is mortal or discordant hath no origin, existence, or realness.

As nothing really has Life but the infinite God, who is Life, this writer infers that, if anything needs to be doctored, it must be the one God, or Mind. The critic concludes thus: “Alas for an age when such darkness can be put before the world as wisdom, and find minds so irrational as to immerse themselves in it!”

I sympathize with his despair over mortal minds, as expressed in this last sentence, but critics must consider

the signs of Christ's coming. Christ, as the idea of God, comes now, as of old, preaching the Gospel to the poor, healing the sick, casting out evils. Neither can it be chaos or darkness which restores an essential element of Christianity, — namely, apostolic healing; but Divine Science is the light shining in darkness, which the darkness comprehends not.

If Christian Science takes away the popular gods, — sin, sickness, and death, — remember it is Christ, Truth, who destroys these evils, and so proves their nothingness.

The dream that matter and error are something, must yield to reason and revelation. Then mortals will behold its nothingness, and sickness and sin will disappear to their vision. The harmonious will appear real, and the inharmonious unreal. These critics must then see that error is indeed the nothingness which they chide us for talking about, and which we desire neither to honor nor fear.

Medical theories virtually admit the nothingness of hallucinations, even while treating them as disease;